LiveScience Topics: Snakes

More Snakes News and Information

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  7 Shocking Snake Stories

  Surprising discoveries about one of nature's most feared creatures.

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  Battlefield Robot Is a Snake

  Eeek! This 2-foot-long spy robot looks and slithers like a snake.

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  Study Shows How Snakes Slither

  Snakes can slither across flat surfaces without legs, but not entirely without help. That's because snake scales act as friction hooks which catch in rough points on surfaces, a new study shows.

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  Why We'll Always Fear Snakes

  My daughter has a snake, a tiny 8-inch-long, innocuous corn snake, and I hate that thing.

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  Cannibalistic Rattlesnakes Eat Dead Offspring

  Rattlesnake mothers will eat their dead offspring to regain energy lost in reproduction.

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  100-Foot 'Borneo Monster' Said Photographed

  A legendary snake-like creature is thought to have come alive.

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  Ancient Snake Was As Long As a Bus

  The largest snake ever recorded lived some 60 million years ago in South America.

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  How Cobras Spit With Perfect Accuracy

  Cobra venom is shout out in a spray rather than a stream.

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  Guam's Birds Gone: Can Forest Survive?

  Can forests that have lost all of their birds still function normally?

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  Sea Snakes Need Freshwater

  Sea snakes actually become dehydrated in the seawater they swim in. They need a source of freshwater to survive.

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  Snakebites Kill 20,000 People a Year

  The real total may be 94,000.

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  World's Smallest Snake Discovered on Barbados

  The world's smallest snake was discovered on Barbados.

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  How Snakes Got Their Fangs

  The bioweapons hidden inside the mouths of snakes had a common origin.

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  Snake Venom Changes with Age, Location

  Like people with an accent, snakes from different regions pack different venom.

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  Can Snakes Smell Anything?

  Most snakes have an excellent sense of smell, in part to make up for their poor eyesight and limited hearing.

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  Do Snakes Have Ears?

  Snakes have no visible ear, so they don't hear sounds as we do.

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  Can Snakes See Well?

  Generally they can see shapes but not details.

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  Why We Fear Snakes

  Humans have evolved an innate tendency to detect snakes and to learn to fear them.

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  How Does a Snake Swallow a Larger Snake?

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  How Do Snakes Swallow Large Animals?

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  Venomous Snake Count On the Rise

  A newly identified deadly snake in India is one of a handful now challenging the long-held concept that there are only four dangerous snakes in the country, sometimes known as the land of snakes.